Van Jones Quotes
Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.
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I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.
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But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.
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Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
